True or False: Elizabeth Olsen's A Great Carrie

It feels like Sex and the City prequel rumors have been swirling since the dawn of time and the latest possible casting is probably just as false—everyone's issued a denial; it started in The Daily Mail—but one of the actresses may be worth a proper campaign.

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If it's true, it'd mean Blake Lively would play Samantha Jones, instead of Carrie Bradshaw as originally rumored. Lively makes sense, and not just because she's blonde. Emma Roberts would be cast as Miranda Hobbs. We're not sure if it's hard to picture her as Miranda or just hard to picture Miranda being young. Selena Gomez sounds like quite a stretch for Charlotte York, mostly because she is so young, but we've never seen her act, so maybe not?

Really, it's the possibility of Elizabeth Olsen playing Carrie Bradshaw that has us even considering caring about The Carrie Diaries. It's hard to imagine that whatever happened before the Sex part—and the City part—will be interesting to anyone who loved the original HBO series, but there's something fresh and smart about Olsen that might make her erase the way we feel about Carrie and the girls post Sex and the City 2.